Well, the new hatelife is done! It’s using Steve’s new forum software, called Forum5000. It doesn’t have a website yet, so I can’t link to it. I’ll let Steve explain the details if he wants to, but basically, it’s a leaner, meaner, more expandable version of FCS.
Then, Steve decided that he wanted to upgrade hatelife to have a powerful CSS layout that didn’t use any tables. He and I have spent the past week pulling together what is probably my best CSS work ever. The site is standards-complaint, and the code is smooth and deadly, and it would be incredibly easy to completely change the way the site looks purely through the usage of CSS (which I plan on doing when we put forum5K on KMorg). And best of all, I finally got to use the browser-upgrade trick I learned from WaSP… so if you view hatelife using Netscape 4.7 (or any browser that doesn’t support CSS2) then the stylesheet doesn’t load, leaving you with a stripped-down (but functional) version of the site, and a link to upgrade your browser!
No tables, huh? I’ll believe it when I see it. Sounds interesting. What does the incorporation of this new software mean? Are you going to “discontinue” FCS? Is everything rolling over to this new wunderkind?
FCS will still be available to those who want it, but we’re going to push for upgrades wherever possible, because the new software is so awesome. hatelife.org is already switched over, and KMorg is next, after some modifications are made. Then we’ll probably upgrade all the other misc. FCS installs lying around.
And yeah, no tables at all in the layout. :)